Issue 6, 2024

Organic nanomotors: emerging versatile nanobots

Abstract

Artificial nanomotors are self-propelled nanometer-scaled machines that are capable of converting external energy into mechanical motion. A significant progress on artificial nanomotors over the last decades has unlocked the potential of carrying out manipulatable transport and cargo delivery missions with enhanced efficiencies owing to their stimulus-responsive autonomous movement in various complex environments, allowing for future advances in a large range of applications. Emergent kinetic systems with programmable energy-converting mechanisms that are capable of powering the nanomotors are attracting increasing attention. This review highlights the most-recent representative examples of synthetic organic nanomotors having self-propelled motion exclusively powered by organic molecule- or their aggregate-based kinetic systems. The stimulus-responsive propulsion mechanism, motion behaviors, and performance in antitumor therapy of organic nanomotors developed so far are illustrated. A future perspective on the development of organic nanomotors is also proposed. With continuous innovation, it is believed that the scope and possible achievements in practical applications of organic nanomotors with diversified organic kinetic systems will expand.

Graphical abstract: Organic nanomotors: emerging versatile nanobots

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
25 Nov. 2023
Accepted
29 Dec. 2023
First published
02 Janv. 2024

Nanoscale, 2024,16, 2789-2804

Organic nanomotors: emerging versatile nanobots

J. Jin, Y. Li, S. Wang, J. Xie and X. Yan, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 2789 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05995B

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